Happy Pvt Bond Wins First Stripe In India Muse
In India eight American enlisted men typically hire one bearer for about $1.50 a month, a service the article notes as highly valued. The cover features a collage of photo credits and captions from various U. S. Army and Air Force photography offices, including INP, Acme, USMC, PA, and others, illustrating wartime images and locations such as Moses Lake AAB and Fort Sill.
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Charles Bond
India
INP
Ben Schmall
Dick Manley
ATC
Hanley
USMC
Acme
Sovinte
AAF
George Meyers
Davie
N. C
Moses Lake
Schnall
AAF Pro
Orlando
Fla
Long Beach
Calif
WAC
Columbia Pictures
U. S. Navy
Bettem
Chinese GI mails long, costly letters from Africa to China
Sgt. Wing Lee, a California native with the U S Army, and his wife in Unoccupied China exchange letters that travel about 35 000 miles and take 55 to 60 days each way at six cents and 14 Chinese dollars postage. Wing’s brother in San Francisco acts as the letter clearinghouse. the route spans Washington DC, San Francisco, Florida, South America, Africa, India, and China, with final delivery by oxcart and river barge. Wing sells American cigarettes at 50 cents a carton in the camp PX, while his wife’s Christmas package contained cigarettes costing nine Chinese dollars.
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Central Africaa
Wing Lee
San Francisco
Calif
Wing
U. S. Army
China
Washington, D. C
Washington
Camp
Buna Veterans Recall Saidor Landing For 32d Division
Veterans of the 32d Division recount Buna and Saidor landings in New Guinea. The piece follows the Saidor assault from landing craft to jungle advance, noting fierce fire, air support, and the march to seize an airstrip and river line while dug in and advancing under bombardment.
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Saidor
32D
Buna
New Guinea
Father and Son in Aussie Army and Navy Service
Australia bound Guy family from Dayton Ohio shows multi service roles. Sgt Robert T Guy serves in the Australian Imperial Forces in New Guinea after the Middle East. His son Robert Jr joins the AIF in a Special Service unit entertaining troops, while Harper works as a Navy signalman in the Pacific and two sisters staff canteens for allied troops. Persistent loyalties touch both nations as Robert Jr eyes a possible US Army transfer.
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Australia
Guy
Dayton
Ohio
Robert T. Guy
States
Melbourne
New Guinea
Middle East
Harper Guy
America
Pacific
U. S. Navy
Robert T. Guy Jr
Robert Jr
Guy Sr
AIF
Harper
Guy Jr
U. S. Army
Amateur theater grows on Ascension Island
On Ascension Island a two hour show sparked a local theater guild after T/Sgt Lew Kerner, ex William Morris Agency figure, organized soldier shows for isolated posts. He identified talents from Form 20s, faced EP delays, improvised costumes, and built a permanent acting staff with makeup kits and scripts for ongoing entertainments before leaving to continue his theater mission.
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Scension Island
South Atlantic
Yanks
Ascension
Lew Kerner
Beverly Hills
Calif
William Morris Agency
Hollywood
Kerner
West
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Unable to determine a coherent readable event. The fragment lacks clear names, places, or actions to summarize as a newspaper item.
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Gis
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